YAY!!!! Today is going to be a blast!!

Guess where I'm at today? The song by Naughty by Nature is a hint...Our Paper Place...AKA OPP!!
Three of my favorite things are going to be in this store today!
1. Scrap supplies
2. friends
3. FONDUE!!
We planned a really fun FONDUE crop! (Notice how the word FONDUE is all in capitols! LOL)
I can't wait to spend ALL day with my good friends!!!
I'll make sure to add photos!!! In the meantime, I created this last night for OPP!!!
This is a layout that I did yesterday. Will post my other ones soon!
This one is using NEW Authentique!!

Thanks for looking!
Hugs
Suzy West

I've been a busy girl!!

I've been a busy girl lately!!!! I went to CHA and had an awesome time looking at all the booths, seeing friends, and doing some networking! When the show was over, I went to downtown Chicago with my friends Katrina and Jennifer!!
I came home from Chicago on Friday at midnight and the next morning I was up bright and early getting ready for a day at Great America, amusement park. We had such a great time!
In the evening I was off to Our Paper Place for a fun night with the girls!! We had an awesome time!!!
On Sunday, our family went off to church and then I went home packed me and Sierra and we were off on a train to Sacramento to stay with our friend Gina and her family for a few days. We had an awesome time!!!
We had a great time scrapping with friends while the kids played in the swimming pool!! We shopped, ate, and had more fun!!!
On my last day there we went to Old Sacramento and visited the State Capitol, ate, and took pictures.
We came home on Wednesday evening and I sat down and planned the next few days while we watched a movie together!!
Today we are going swimming with Angel and the kids. I'll be hanging out at Our Paper Place in the evening.
The rest of the week I have a baby shower, a day at Great America, a Giants game, a full day of cropping and fondue with all my scrappy friends at Our Paper Place, and then re-pack and catch another train to visit my friend Gina and her beautiful family!!!
I have some scoop!!! I am a NEW educator for two awesome companies: Simple Stories and Authentique!!! I'm super excited!!!! I will be teaching with their products at a lot of stores!!!
So look out for where I'll be with in the next few months and next year!!! I have some exciting things going on!!! I'll be using their products on our product that is debuting in January!!
So see...I've been a busy girl!!!
Are you exhausted from reading my post yet? LOL
If you read all this...you rock!!! LOL
Have a great week!
Hugs
Suzy

New challenge at Our Paper Place

I was at Our Paper Place before I left for Texas and told Sarah that we should make a challenge video for her store. She thought it would be a fun idea. We got together the other day and did the video with the help of Gloria (our camera girl and co-owner) and Sierra (our "director"). We had fun putting filming together and Sierra felt very special to be a part of it. LOL
You can view the video here: OUR VIDEO
We invite you to take on the challenge. You can find out more information on Sarah's store website, OUR PAPER PLACE
We look forward to seeing what you create.
I'll be teaching at Our Paper Place next week, check out their site to see what's up!!
I'll be attending the Great American Scrapbook Convention--CHANTILLY in a couple of weeks. The day before the show I will be teaching at a wonderful store, PHOTO SCRAPS in Eldersburg, MD
Have a wonderful day,

Suzy West

New project... post to win a kit!!!

I've been pretty busy lately getting ready to teach at different places. Tomorrow I leave for the Great American Scrapbook Convention in Arlington, Texas. It's been cold and rainy here...it's going to be 100 degrees when I get to Texas!! YIKES!! I feel sorry for my hair and anyone who has to look at my hair. It's going to go crazy!! (those going to the show...you've been warned!)
My friend Sarah and I are up to something really fun for her store, Our Paper Place!!! It involves scrapbook supplies, a video camera, and the two of us!!! A crazy combination!!!! (for those that watch...you've been warned again...we ARE crazy! LOL) Watch for the news on Our Paper Places facebook page, twitter, and on their blog. Can't wait to show you!!!
This is a sneak peak of my project that I'm working on. It has Crate Paper, Epiphany Crafts, Basically Bare, Helmars, Jillibean, Hambly, and more!!

CONTEST!!!! Do you want to win a kit??
All you have to do is leave a comment here on my blog and one lucky winner will win one of my class kits!!!
You have from now until Sunday to post anything you'd like. I'll post the winner on MONDAY!!
Thanks for looking!!!
Have a great day and rest of the week!!
Hugs
Suzy West

PS...do you know you can follow me on twitter now?

Blog udpate--family, friends, teaching, and more!!

I have had a really busy good and bad few weeks!!

Sierra was really ill, she got pneumonia and had the roughest time getting rid of it. Luckily she's doing a lot better!!
Something I'm grateful for: AN AMAZING DR.!!! She has a great one. He checks on her all the time and makes sure to research everything before making any decisions.

This is Sierra making book marks. She is having surgery in July and wants to bring things to do and reading is one of them so we thought we'd make book marks. She's so sweet!!

I love my time with Jeremy!!! He is such an amazing guy!!!!
We love going to the movies and to baseball games!
The other night he and I went to Giants game and had a great time!! I celebrated NSD at Our Paper Place with a lot of different gals!!! OPP had three different days and each one was perfect!!! LOVE the store!!
I love this picture of us girls!!! We are all Survivor fans and really wanted to watch the ending...so I took my laptop outside and we watched it there to not spoil it for anyone else!!!! AWESOME!!!!
I love teaching!!!! It's something I'm really grateful for. Last week I taught at Treasured Memories in Oak Park, Ca. I loved seeing the girls from the last time I was there and the new gals I met. I look forward to seeing everyone again in September!!
I have a lot of fun things going on....look to the right to see some of the dates that I have posted!!! I'll be adding more dates soon!!!!
Have a wonderful day!!!
Suzy West

National Scrapbook Day at OPP!!!

I am so thrilled to be attending National Scrapbook day at Our Paper Place in Newark!!

They have planned awesome events for everyone!!!! They have three dates on the calendar.
Saturday, May 7th--10am-10pm (SOLD OUT)
Saturday, May 14th--10am-10pm (2 open spots)
Sunday, May 15th--10am-10pm (2 open spots)
Not sure if the spots are still there but if you are intersted in going, call the store at 510-792-4487.
I'll be doing demos on certain dates. Hope to see you there!!
Hugs
Suzy West

Basically Bare--new projects, teaching, and more!!

I am so thrilled to announce that I've been asked to be one of the Endorsed Educators for Basically Bare, a new manufacture!!!!
You can check them out HERE. Please check out their blog. I have a post there. You can see what Sarah De Guzman created as well.
I am thrilled to have a book created by my ideas and inspirations!!! I'll be teaching with it all over the country!!! (I'll be using their other products too!!)
It's this book here that I created Fun In The Sun with!!! The book is called Funky Findings. It's a fun tall and slender book. LOL

This other book was created with Totally Tabbed. I love that it's big and filled with lots of fun different pages!! You can fit a ton in it! The book is 8x10!!!

I'm thrilled to be teaching these projects and another at Treasured Memories in Oak Park. I will be there the end of May. You can check out the details at their site here.

I have a class coming up at Our Paper Place on Friday, May 13th!! Check it out here.
Thanks for looking and hope to see you at one of my upcoming classes!!!
Hugs
Suzy West

A day to remember, a new projects, and post your blogs!!

Last night was such fun!! I went to a crop at Our Paper Place. The new store that Sarah De Guzman owns very close to my house!! I finished creating this project that I'll be teaching at the Great American Scrapbook Convention in both Chantilly, VA and Arlington, TX. I got to work with Echo Park, Clear Scraps, and Epiphany Crafts!!

I'm teaching this class and other ones as well! If you are planning on attending, hope you can make it to one of my classes. I'm also the MC at the Arlington, TX show!!!! Come and get your scrap on with me!!!

The day before I left on my trip I attended my uncle's 103rd birthday party!

It was such a wonderful event full of memories and love!!

I'm grateful to have a lot of great pictures with him!!! Here are just some!!

Last, I'd like to thank everyone who has contacted me about the future DT call. I'll be finding out a little more soon and will start putting out a call soon! Please continue to send me your blog info!! Please post them here so I can have one spot to look. Have a wonderful day!!! hugs, Suzy West

projects, a saying, and a future dt call!!

Hi all!!! I wanted to show you some projects that I've created lately!! I made this first one using the beautiful For The Record by Echo Park!! The lovely album is by Clear Scraps!! I love the scallops!! I will be teaching it in Texas at the Great American Scrapbook Convention!!

The other day I made this layout using the NEW Websters Pages!! Love this line!! If you are in the San Francisco bay area, you can find it at Our Paper Place.

I wanted to share this with you!!

When I saw this saying it became my favorite quote!

As you know I'm working on a lot of really cool projects right now with some amazing manufactures!! I can't say yet what's up but I will soon!! For one of my new adventures, I will be looking for designers all over the world!!! So let me know if you are looking...I'm going to be doing a call but I'll probably be hand picking some as well!!

Hugs, Suzy West

Couldn't be happier layout

Sarah got a lot of new Bo Bunny products in the store and asked me to create
a layout to display.
It was so easy to create this layout!! Let me show you.





...and there you go!!

Thanks for looking!
Have a great day!!

Been creating!!!

Saturday was a lot of fun!!! I taught a really fun class at Our Paper Place and then stayed for the crop!! It was fun getting to hang with some of my gal pals!!!!

I finished another project that I will be teaching in April!!
I'm teaching a spring related class...I know Spring is supposed to be bright and sunny...but I really liked this paper line by Jillibean!!
Here are some sneak peaks of my project.

Sunday was also really nice!! We went to church in the morning...after church I spent some quality time with my son Jeremy. Then we went to go see Tanner and Tristan practice playing T-ball!! I told them they had to see Jamma hit a ball...(they didn't believe me that I could hit it)...ohhhhh I sooooo hit it! LOL
In the evening I went out with Julia and Jen!! Had such a great time talking about all kinds of craziness! LOL

Thanks for coming by!! Leave me a comment! Love reading them!!
Hugs
Suzy west

...tap tap tap...is this thing on?

I'm really excited!!! I was invited by the Great American Scrapbook Convention to be the MC at the crop night events in Texas!!!!! I'm super excited! We are going to have a ton of fun!!!

I was also asked to teach several classes!!
I'm really excited and am in the sketching process!! I'll be giving more scoop really soon!

If you are going to the Virginia expo...I'll be teaching there too!!!

I scrapped another layout for my layout class next month! If you are interested in the class, you can get the information in the post below!!!

Have a wonderful week!!!
Hugs,
Suzy West

Birthday fun and a new class!!!

This Tuesday I turn 40 and the celebration has already begun!!!
It started on Friday during lunch... Angel, Sierra, the boys, and I went out to Red Robins. We had a great lunch and then the waiters came and sang and gave me a hot fudge sundae.

In the evening we celebrated at Our Paper Place!! There was yummy cake and snacks!!
So much fun!!!

Today the family and I went to an awesome restaurant and we celebrated there!! I had such a great time with them!!!! Nothing makes me more happy than to have everyone together.

Before I show you all the pictures from my birthday party....here's a sneak peak of my class at Our Paper Place.

It's a layout class using Crate Paper!!!!
It's on Wednesday, March 16th--Starts at 7pm
To sign up call the store at 510-794-4487

You will make four different layouts!!

Here are some of the pictures from tonight!!!

Me and my kiddos!!! I love them so much!!!

All the girls!!!


The men in my life!!

My main squeeze!

My sweet and beautiful mommy!

Love my Jazzy!

The best brothers!!

My yummy new Vera Bradley bag for my Lap top!!!
Love it!!!!

Thanks for letting me share!!!!!!
Hugs, Suzy West

working on new projects

Since I got back from CHA, I have been wanting to do nothing but create but haven't because I've been spending quality time with my beautiful family!!
Last night I went to a crop night at Our Paper Place and started creating with the NEW Echo Park Paper line. (it's not out yet). I was given some products for designing at CHA for them. It will be shipping out soon!!!
I wanted to do something a little different and started creating with random non scrapbook items to create my project.
I've done a little bit more but this is part of my cover.

I'm excited about this project and even though it's not done yet, I've already been asked to teach it at different stores. LOL
Anyways, I'm so grateful to have some inklings of inspiration right now!!!!
I plan on finishing this tonight and doing more!!!
Thank you to everyone that inspires and encourages me to keep creating!!
You are all wonderful!!!
Hugs
Suzy West